Tuesday, August 7, 2007
time
I am realizing lately that time is a serious aspect to our life. Everything we do is surrounded by time. Every decision we make defines who we are, and every decision is attached to time. I believe Satan's best attack on people is on their time. People will waste 2, 7, 10, 25, 40 years of their life on being busy. America is so focused on being busy that it forgets about what is more important. We labor in work, in study, in advancing; all to achieve success. But what is success? Spending hours of work to accumulate wealth among everyone, to distribute food and leisure? We focus so much on health of our beings, that we become control freaks. How many of us take time packing our things at the end of class, or do we just rush out the door to get to the next class? How many of us call a friend up to actually connect with them, or are we just sending a quick text to get together? Do we just want to work or have fun to pass time? I do believe that work and leisure will always be a part of our lives and should be, but when it becomes who we are, what is left? Just a shadow passing through time? Are we actually connecting with each other to pass time. How many times do we write cards to encourage other people? How many times do we volunteer at Church, or give the Church more money than the usual tithe? I think a lot of the time we will go on mission trips because it is an easier way to be pushed into helping other people, but I think the true mission is becoming a servant, not just serving. Becoming someone who dedicates their life to helping other people, delving into lives. My biggest problem right now is learning how to stop focusing on myself, becoming a control freak on my life, and wanting to have leisure every time I am not working because I want to pass the time. This is a tragedy in my life right now, because I KNOW that Satan is attacking me largely on my time right now. I get so frustrated when everyone is so busy around me, because I want to be busy as well. In reality I should not care, I should enjoy the time I have to read God's word, to write encouraging letters to others, to do something that will actually be useful instead of wasting time.
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in serving, or as you stated in a manner that we are to strive for, being a servant, where does one draw the line? If not approached right, serving becomes just labour.
Ecc. 3
Luke 22:24 says, "For who is greater, the one who reclines at the table or the one who serves? Is it not the one who reclines at the table? But I am among you as the one who serves." Aren't we suppose to be like Christ, one who serves?
ah, i conveyed what i had intended not to.
Mark 14
7The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.
more on track would be the verse i referenced before. I am not condemning servanthood, but pointing out than if blown out of context (as any element can be), it's purpose is lost.
1 Cor. 13
1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.
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